"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe."
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"The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god."
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"Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers."
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"Nature is wont to hide herself."
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"Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse."
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"Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death."
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"Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies."
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"All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string."
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"Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions."
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"Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife."
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"Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars."
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"The content of your # character is your # choice."
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"It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them."
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"The only thing constant is change"
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"A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet."
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"The phases of fire are craving and satiety."
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"If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass."
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"Change is the only constant."
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"There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own."
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"He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored"
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